Sorry if the title is a bit confusing; I'm not sure how to phrase it. I'm a beginner learning python for a linguistics course I'm taking, and I'm having a bit of a problem transferring some scripts into the command prompt. I'm using Windows 8.1 and python 3.6.0, if that helps at all.
The problem I'm having is that I can write a script in the python.exe program, and it will work exactly how it should. Then I will run the exact same script using the command prompt, the only thing it returns is a blank line.
for example, I can manually type this into the python console and get the right output:
>>>print("hello")
hello
but if I save that in a Notepad++ file and execute the same script using the command prompt, it'll look like this (please excuse my butchered pathway recreation):
C:\Users\username\Python>hello.py
C:\Users\username\Python>
The "hello.py" is the script I tried to run using the exact same code I manually entered in the Python console, but when I try to open the file, it does nothing.
This doesn't happen with every script I try to run, though, and I can't figure out what triggers this to happen. I'm not getting any kind of error, so I don't know how to go through trial and error. This is making it increasingly difficult to check my work as I add elements, and I'm not sure how to fix this. If anyone has suggestions, I would really appreciate the help.